This Wednesday was a very busy and productive day.  After getting the kids going I went to my social services orientation class.  The instructor gave and interesting lecture about the various orientation of social service workers and their tendency to offer their pet type of therapy be it 12 step, religious, psych meds, or psychosocial, for every person that needs help.  The common thread that I saw was the idea that we need to break our fixed perspectives.

After class I saw some classmates sitting at a bench outside smoking.  I went and sat with them and we had a very interesting discussion about our career choice and about recovery.  The weather was a little nicer as a cool front blew in and there was a breeze.  On my way home I thought perhaps I should catch a meeting.  I tried to call my wife and check with her.  I stopped in for lunch and she called me back and chewed me out for not being home yet as she had class and expected me to know about it.   I wanted to lash out but had to pray to resist.  As I payed for my food I encountered and old friend from high school who asked about my brother. I replied that I don't see him often and I suppose it is because I have to get after him about his parental delinquency every time I see him.   I was disappointed in myself for talking this way.  I realized afterward that there is a reason that I need to reply this way because I want to offer an explanation for why we don't see each other often that addresses the real issue, but that I need to speak in less pejorative terms.

In the evening I got to go to a meeting. I went to Living Faith.  The topic was discipline.  I met a new friend and saw and old one.

When I came home my wife chewed me out because she said that we only talked about me 'possibly' going to a meeting.  I found myself getting resentful to her.

I got to watch Texas play in the LLWS with my sons.

Thanks be to God